Rouse argues for a new, interdisciplinary model of science studies and a reconceptualization of philosophy, sociology, and history of science on the grounds that there is a need for more philosophically adequate understandings of science than current approaches allow. Rouse's vision is compelling, moving beyond dichotomies entrenched in the relevant literatures.
Lynn Hankinson Nelson, author of Who Knows: ... Read moreFrom Quine to a Feminist Empiricism Rouse makes an important contribution to our understanding of the current state of science studies. His book's greatest strength is its overall argument that a wide range of apparently diverse approaches to science can be persuasively read as constituting a new and fruitful alternative to the legitimation project.
Gary Gutting, author of Michael Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason An ambitious attempt to outline an alternative to the dominant philosophical and social constructivist efforts to make sense of science.... [Rouse] extends his examination of practice, local knowledge, and the politics of science into a full-fledged conception of philosophy of science as cultural studies.
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